The Poetic Silmarillion
Series compiled by Dawn Felagund
\"The Poetic Silmarillion\" is an ongoing attempt to \"collect\" poems and songs that might have been spoken and sung by various characters and cultures in Middle-earth.
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Summary:
\"The Poetic Silmarillion\" is an ongoing attempt to \"collect\" poems and songs that might have been spoken and sung by various characters and cultures in Middle-earth.
Major Characters: Amarië, Ar-Pharazôn, Finwë, Melkor, Original Character(s), Tar-Míriel
Major Relationships:
Genre: Experimental, Poetry
Challenges:
Fanworks in "The Poetic Silmarillion"
How I Wish by Dawn Felagund
Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Mild)
Left behind by Finrod, Amárië considers the paradox of her situation: her wish for his return and the only means by which her wish would be granted. A sonnet.
Seek the Horizon, Númenor's Sons by Dawn Felagund
Warnings: No warnings apply
"Above all arts they nourished shipbuilding and sea-craft, and they became mariners whose like shall never be again since the world was diminished; and voyaging upon the wide seas was the chief feat and adventure of their hardy men in the gallant days of their youth"--a Númenórean mariners' chant.
Seven Falls by Dawn Felagund
Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Moderate)
Melkor and Finwë battle in Formenos after the Darkening of Valinor. A sestina.
"Zimraphel" and "I who loved her" by Noliel, Dawn Felagund
Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes
Tar-Miriel faces the wave that will drown Númenor while, in the midst of the forbidden realm of Valinor, Ar-Pharazôn is granted sudden awareness of her fate.
Teler by Dawn Felagund
Warnings: No warnings apply
After the Darkening of Valinor, a Telerin Elf looks back at the days of light. For National Poetry Month.
Bedtime Tales of the Sun by Dawn Felagund
Warnings: Mature Themes
A young daughter in the House of Anárion asks how the world came to be rounded.
